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Steve Rushin |
| Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive. ~ Stephen Leacock |
| Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. ~ Doug Larson |
| By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series. ~ Steve Rushin |
| October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football. ~ Jason Love |
| A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can’t hit one another. ~ Jimmy Cannon |
| Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental. ~ Jim McKenny |
| How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo? ~ Jacques Plante |
| Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be. ~ Wayne Gretzky |
| Ice hockey players can walk on water. ~ Author Unknown |
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| Hockey players have fire in their hearts and ice in their veins. ~ Author Unknown |
| Hockey is murder on ice. ~ Jim Murray |
| Street hockey is great for kids. It’s energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all it keeps them off the street. ~ Author Unknown |
| My other car is a Zamboni. ~ Hockey Saying |
| Hockey players wear numbers because you can’t always identify the body with dental records. ~ Author Unknown |
| Don’t go through life without goals. ~ Hockey Saying |
| Hockey is figure skating in a war zone. ~ Author Unknown |
| High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing… everything else is just figure skating. ~ Author Unknown |
| Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ~ John Leonard |
| Four out of five dentists surveyed recommended playing hockey. ~ Author Unknown |
| Give blood. Play hockey. ~ Author Unknown |
| All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. ~ Gordie Howe |
| My goal is to deny yours. ~ Hockey Saying |
| When Hell freezes over, I’ll play hockey there too. ~ Author Unknown |
| Black people dominate sports in the United States – 20 percent of the population and 90 percent of the Final Four. We own this shit. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, tennis, and as soon as they make a heated hockey rink we’ll take that shit too. ~ Chris Rock |
| Red ice sells hockey tickets. ~ Bob Stewart |
| I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out. ~ Rodney Dangerfield |
| We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don’t even have to go to the hospital. ~ Brad Park |